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Tonight — Political Commercials Deconstructed

I’ll be leading an ace team consisting of advertising mogul Steve Wolfberg (owner of Cronin), former GOP chair Chris Healy and Matt Kauffman, king of advertising fact-checking for the Courant tonight at Watkinson School at 7 p.m.

We’ll talk about some of the famous campaign ads of yore and show what they’ve turned into today — and why.

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10 thoughts on “Tonight — Political Commercials Deconstructed”

I’d not take the road traveled by Great Britain, France, Belgium…, and outlaw paid political broadcast advertisements. But, the policy does have its appeal.

The only past political commercial I can even bring to mind is the anti-Goldwater daisy ad by Lyndon Johnson. I had to get up early for school, couldn’t watch Monday Night at the Movies, so missed the one and only broadcast. Maybe that could be the policy; paid political advertising, but only once per production.

Wow William, I don’t know if you know this, but there’s a Joseph Curl who must’ve plagiarized your story!

Right there in the Washington Times!

CURL: Crowley skews hard for Obama in disastrous presidential debate

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Another debate, another debacle for America’s media.

In the runup to the second presidential debate, CNN’s Candy Crowley declared that she would not just be a “fly on the wall” as she played the tiny role of moderator, that she would step in whenever she chose to say, “Hey, wait a second, what about X, Y, Z?”

And boy did she, cutting off Republican Mitt Romney repeatedly and often throwing the floor to President Obama with an open “let me give the president a chance here.”…